Hello everybody, it is me, Dave, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, scrumptious carrot cakes. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Scrumptious carrot cakes is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. Scrumptious carrot cakes is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
I like using all-purpose flour, but you can substitute some of the all-purpose flour for whole wheat or white whole wheat flour. For a gluten-free carrot cake, swap the flour for your favorite gluten-free flour blend. Baking soda helps the cake to rise.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have scrumptious carrot cakes using 22 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Scrumptious carrot cakes:
- Take 2 cups all purpose flour
- Prepare 2 teaspoon baking soda
- Prepare 1 teaspoon salt
- Get 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- Make ready 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
- Prepare 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- Get 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
- Prepare 1/4 teaspoon ground aniseed
- Prepare 1/8 teaspoon ground cardamom
- Get 1 1/4 cup sunflower oil
- Get 1 cup caster sugar
- Take 1 cup lightly packed brown sugar
- Make ready 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Make ready 4 eggs(@55gr)
- Take 3 1/2 cups grated carrot (around 6 medium carrots)
- Make ready 1 cup chopped nuts(i used pecan)
- Get 1/2 cup raisin
- Make ready Frosting:
- Take 125 gr cream cheese(room temperature)
- Prepare 125 gr butter (room temperature)
- Make ready 140 gr icing sugar (don’t use icing mixture)
- Make ready Squeeze lemon juice
The consistency of carrot cake should allow you to cut it in half in order to add a layer of frosting. This scrumptious dessert is what everyone will be raving about! This truly is one of the best carrot cake recipes alone with whole wheat carrot cake bread, frosted carrot cake cookies or carrot cake cupcakes. All my carrot cake recipes are made with fresh carrots, the perfect blend of spices and a sweet, heavenly frosting!
Steps to make Scrumptious carrot cakes:
- Heat oven to 180C. Grease two 8 inches tins and line it with baking paper.
- Start with combining dry ingredients in a big bowl(it is fine for you to omit some of the spice or if you want to use all-spice, instead of using all those spices; 2 teaspoon will be just right). Shift together and set aside
- In a different bowl Whisk oil, sugars(combined caster and brown sugar) and vanilla, whisk in egg one by one until its well blended. Scrape the side.
- Shift in dry ingredients in three parts(using shifter to prevent any lumps), using rubber spatula mix it gently until they disappear.
- Add carrots, pecan and raisin, mix well. Pour it to two prepared tins, bake until top of the cake is springy, and toothpick come out clean. It takes 35-40minutes to bake.
- Meanwhile, beat the cream cheese until light and soft, add icing sugar a bit at a time, add butter in parts, make sure it is well combine each time you add cubed butter.
- When the carrot cake done from the oven, leave it in the tin for around 10 minutes, transfer it on the cooling rack, decorate with frosting. Have a good baking!
Excellent but the printed recipe is a little too moist. I made it to a T the first time, and the cake was good but a bit oily. This is our favorite recipe for carrot cake cupcakes! These cupcakes are also inspired by one of our most popular recipes! Jump to the Easy Carrot Cake Cupcakes Recipe or read on to see our tips for making them.
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